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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject: Re: Any objection to the following? 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 06 Jun 1997 01:13:51 PDT."
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Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 09:31:34 -0400
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How about using the /usr/local/etc/rc.d mechanism, and 'ldconfig -m'
to merge in other directories containing share libraries?  At least
one package already installs like this (the Modula-3 package?) and it
doesn't required a package install/remove to edit any files to remove
that it think it installed.

Perhaps there needs to be an opportunity to run some of those scripts
from a different place (on the root filesystem?) earlier in the
startup process.  But I don't believe that a whole other mechanism is
required to solve this problem.

louie